Doug Larson

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

Possessions are always secondary, loved ones are all that matters.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

There’s no limit to the things you can do.